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December 18, 2007

Breaking: The John Edwards affair story is about to flare up again

riellewhiteheadshot.jpg Remember those rumors a couple of months ago that John Edwards had had an affair with a campaign volunteer named Rielle Hunter?

When I posted about them at the time, I chided Mickey Kaus for saying that "the MSM seems to be strenuously trying to not report" the story. Even as I expressed doubts about the story itself, I replied, "I'll betcha anything this will be all over the MSM within a week."

What I meant to say was, "within two and a half months." I can now exclusively report that at least two news outlets are preparing to break new details on this story in the near future. I know because I've been contacted by someone at a reputable news agency trying to track down the source of the photo I used to accompany my post (I pulled it off Hunter's now vanished web site).

When asked why he wanted it, my correspondent wrote... Well, I don't think he quite understood the implications of e-mailing a blogger without first asking to go off the record, so I'll be somewhat circumspect and say only that his message ended, "If I were you I'd keep an eye out for this one."

Eww, now I feel all Drudgey.

Update: The National Enquirer rushes out a story that Hunter is pregnant with JE's child. What makes it almost believable: she says the father is actually Andrew Young, Edwards' former director of operations.

This may well have been one of the news outlets I was told was working on the story, in which case I apologize if my post was slightly misleading. My transition from last month's speculation about "the MSM" to this week's item may have given the impression that the "news outlets" I referred to were likely to be, well, not supermarket tabloids. Similarly, when I said I was contacted by someone at a "reputable news agency," I didn't mean to imply that the publications that ultimately ran with the story would themselves be reputable. People in the journalism business, but not necessarily casual readers, understand that even tabloids hire reputable agencies to perform certain tasks for them.

Oh yeah, Drudge now lists the story as "developing."

Posted by Daniel Radosh

Comments

I'm sorry to see the comment but I got a kick out of your writing style..."drudgy" and all.
Cute~~

Typical corporatist retaliation for Edwards speaking out for the working poor and middle class.
Hillary and Obama are no threat to lobbyists and corporatists funding their campaigns.

You've made our country a little bit dumber with your post.

Congrats.

I work for the Edwards campaign.

So I am really getting a kick out of all of these rumors.

A lot of you are really good at making yourselves look like you know what you're talking about, but trust me: You don't.

I think you want to make yourselves sound smart, when in reality you have no idea what you're talking about.

This is how bad information gets passed around.

If you don't know about a topic, don't make yourself sound like you do...

...Because some people will believe everything they read.

Funny how Edwards supporters claim that he speaks for the poor when he made a fortune selling junk science, lives in an exclusive neighborhood, will take campaign funds from corporations and is more than willing to continue this trend into the foreseeable future.
I don't have a problem with Edwards per se, but I think is supporters are fools.

She is hot!

(Not that I excuse adultry, or anything.) :)

John Edwards is a realist. He understands that his candidacy for President is highly unlikely and that he needs to savor the little victories in the primary spotlight by catching a piece of volunteer tail while he can. The only reason some people are making this an issue is so they can sell more SubWay sandwiches while you shop this holiday. Think it up, people.

The age old story. she's got the stingaree. He wants the stingaree. Move along! Nothing to see here.

Another blow hard politician that can't keep it in his pants! Yet, this one takes it to a new level...his wife has cancer! Nice!

Way to go, butthole!

i smell the clintons, they are involved somehow.

He doesn't seem to mind his cancer-stricken wife dropping into an early grave from the rigors of a campaign trail. now I see why.

I'd hit it.

There should be a lawsuit - Edwards stole this straight from the Gingrich playbook.

I'd hit it. Heck, I did, like the fist of an angry God. My goodness, I'm farking it now!

hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahah ah ahaahhahahaahha, i thought he was gay, not that theres' anything wrong with that

WHAT!!! Mr. Goldenboy himself-just like slick Willie? Well at least her name isn't Monica and he's not the President. Congress might want to impeach him too.

Just goes to show you what money & power will do. Meanwhile, the poor unfortunate souls who believe his line of B.S. take it up the arse.

Mom? OMG!

Actually, I don't care what Mr. Edwards does with his personal life. I feel bad for his wife but for all I know she could be fine with this arrangement.

What I do care about is the competency of our government and to be brutally blunt with you all, we aren't electing the Pope here and considering how bad a job President "sexless" Reagan did as well as this President Bush is doing, some sort of false morality isn't what I want our leader to project.

I'll make a deal with you. I'll keep from telling our politicians what they should be doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms, when it is conducted between consenting adults, and you keep your priests from molesting the altar boys.

Deal?

I'm betting we would all be better off because of it.

I know Rielle Hunter. She is more famous for being the coke addict party-girl character in the novel Bright Lights, Big City, by Jay McInerney. More recently, she became "enlightened" and started her own guru business, which is the websire that was closed down.

bj clinton wants to apply for some "volunteer" work. 2 girls for 2 Americas.

I'd hit it.

It didn't hurt Giuliana, why would it hurt Edwards? Oh yeah, he's a Democrat, and they're required to live up to moral ideals instead of just spouting off about them all the time.

Just wait for the lesbian rumors about hillary to come pouring out again

or by god, a rumor that Obama slept with a white girl

there goes the south

I DID hit it, and it was my-HEE-tee TAY-STEE!

My pee stings...

You can hear her call him "honey" in the BusinessWeek video, and he gushes like a schoolboy. What a prince.

BTW, "Randon" said "I'll make a deal with you. I'll keep from telling our politicians what they should be doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms, when it is conducted between consenting adults, and you keep your priests from molesting the altar boys."

Great, you shut you're big mouth while we, the collective "you" are supposed to police the priests? And just how does that square with your belief in the separation of church and state? Try making a coherent case when you post.

If his wife can't trust him, why should I?

Snipe successful.....reality skewed......moving along!


I work for the Edwards campaign.

The boss ain't gettin' any from Mrs. Chemo-pants, so what is 'sposed to do? Huh?

Face it, chicks dig him 'cus of the hair.

We know we aint gonna win, but Obama may have a job for the boss later.

Dig?


hey randon reality check, what the hell does priests doing altar boys have to do with a slime ball lawyer banging someone while his wife has cancer? you need a reality check, or some xanax

Bush Homosexual Allegations Resurface In New Book
Leola McConnell releases tell-all memoirs

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, September 24, 2007

Allegations that George W. Bush performed a homosexual act on current U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe in the mid-1980's have resurfaced in the tell-all memoirs of the woman who first made the claim.

Leola McConnell, former Liberal Democratic Candidate for Governor of Nevada and one time prostitute-for-hire, was met with deafening silence on behalf of the majority of the corporate media last year when she sensationally alleged that Bush and Ashe regularly hired bisexual men for secret sex sessions in the 80's when Bush was a private citizen.

(Article continues below)

"In 1984 I watched George W. Bush enthusiastically and expertly perform a homosexual act on another man, one Victor Ashe," said McConnell.

"Ashe is the current U.S. ambassador to Poland; and he too should come out, like former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevy, and admit to being a gay American."
"Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then-private citizen George W. Bush. I know this because I performed one of them on him myself."

According to Radar Online, in the year since McConnell made the claim, she has been subjected to constant harassment and death threats. An attempt to get her story told in the pages of Larry Flynt's Hustler Magazine fell through, so she has chosen to self-publish a series of memoirs called Lustful Utterances.

In the books, McConnell (pictured below) also claims to expose a network of clientele that regularly enjoyed her "services", most of which come from the Evangelical wing of the Republican Party and the Neo-Con crowd.

Bush is a regular attendee at the the all-male Bohemian Grove club, an annual gathering of the elite which takes place at a forest encampment in Monte Rio, California. In 2004, the New York Post reported that homosexual porn stars were being hired by the Grove to "service" the members, supposedly without their knowledge.

However, the Grove is notorious for its homosexual activity and a reporter who worked at the camp during the summer of 2004 and 2005 told us that he was regularly propositioned by men seeking homosexual intercourse.

On June 29 1989, the Washington Times' Paul M. Rodriguez and George Archibald reported on a Washington D.C. prostitution ring that had intimate connections with the White House allegedly all the way up to President George H.W. Bush. According to the story, male prostitutes had been given access to the White House and the article also cited evidence of "abduction and use of minors for sexual perversion."

Photos of George W. Bush embracing Jeff Gannon, the gay escort turned fake news reporter, who was allowed unmitigated access to the White House press corps with no background investigation or credentials, were popular at the height of the Gannon/Guckert scandal.

Has anyone commented who is over the age of 10

Has anyone commented here who is over the age of 10?


I mean emotional developement, of course.

Hey, Edwards!

Couldn't resist it, huh? Whacha goin to name the little child support payment?

Every president, and every candidate, is a President Clinton. President Clinton was just the most Clinton of them all. It doesn't appear as though Edwards taste is any better either. That poor wife of his. She'll stay for the money.

THIS IS WEHRE THE MILK COMES OUT OMFG OMFG OMFG

X

Um.

Are all these the same person?

She is way hot and John Edwards is a charismatic guy. Bring on the love child, I say! Let's bust through all the hypocracy and tell it like it is. Doesn't anyone have the guts anymore?

This is vapid. I despise this pathetic choice of journalism, if you can call it that. To look at the outlines of invention in thought and commentary, should be the goal of what should be possible. Dialog, about what is the reality of our situation in the good old USA, would be more relevant. Sorry that Edwards is just more progressive than those moderate clones in the DNC.

james This is vapid. I despise this pathetic choice of journalism, if you can call it that. To look at the outlines of invention in thought and commentary, should be the goal of what should be possible. Dialog, about what is the reality of our situation in the good old USA, would be more relevant. Sorry that Edwards is just more progressive than those moderate clones in the DNC.

STFU F49

we wants boobies and we gets boobies!

Daniel, you get linked somewhere or something?

Sometimes I forget what the rest of the internet is like. This is almost as bad as the comments on Errol Morris' NYT blog.

Whew, appearing on FARK seems to be a mixed blessing at best.

Once again, you've got a picture of a women way too old for this website. I'm waiting for the Jamie Lynn Spears post.

Haha you feel all Drudgy... if only your site was half that good maybe I would have heard of you before today

Hard to believe an ambulance-chasing, $3000 haircut-wearing, man of the people, democratic politician would be unfaithful. IT'LL BE LIKE 8 MORE YEARS OF CLINTON.

Anybody know if he's had any land deals lately?!

@Eric Berlin: "Whew, appearing on FARK seems to be a mixed blessing at best."

You got that right.

I can only begin to imagine what the thread on there looks like right about now.

Probably 40% "I'd hit that", 30% "STFU", 25% "But but but Bush!", and 5% miscellaneous.

Its easy to separate the D's from the R's as the D's aren't poking underage males.

I saw the first post on this issue and it was plain and simple; a made up story! Pathetic little people, do pathetic things. This is the kind of thing that comes from the Karl Rove school of "How to Win an Election" whisper little lies all over the internet and hope they catch on.

Pathetic, simply pathetic

Elizabeth Edwards never had cancer. That is just a story to get gullable people to vote for John. It appears like it's working!

This is a pathetic "hit job" intended to flood the blogs and media.

Why are people (like the proprietress of this blog) so willing to vote against their own best interests.

John Edwards is the grassroots candidate who is really ready to "fix" the problems created by the last 7 years of this horrible administration.

Ann Coulter actually "pimped" this false "story" back in October on Tucker Carlson's show.

Let us all realize that there are lots of people who don't want John Edwards as the nominee.

This is absurd. By the way, who does the proprietress, Ms. Radosh of Brooklyn, NY, support for president?

I thought so.

"Proprietress" is an outdated and sexist construction, Mia, like "poetess" or "aviatrix." I think you owe Ms. Radosh a big apology.

to all of you with beer goggles that would tap that: you are on CRACK. hit the link of her name and it will bring you to another article with a more realistic picture. now that is scary. nighmares to you all.

Mia has it exactly right. I have discovered that it is actually possible for one blogger to change the entire outcome of a presidential election by spreading gossip about a candidate who is already trailing in every poll! Victory is mine!

Not that it matters, but I'm on record as a long time Edwards fan.

I like his silence approach. B/c for someone who goes on news shows with something sooooo personal as his wife's health records, he sure is kinda hush on this one.

Loved the dancing in the Couric interview which touched on infidelity, btw!

Probably smart to keep mum. The amount of money in his war chest can continue to pay out his cronies for another month or two until he loses every primary in a miserable fashion. What saps are contributing under this rouse?!

It does seem weird that she moved from NY to NC to live in a house Young owns, in the same neighborhood where he lives with his family. (His wife must be a saint!) The car she's driving is registered to him too. And he originally denied knowing who Hunter was, or that he was even Andrew Young. But other than that, it's 100% plausible.


When it turns out that this entire scandal was a LIE, I hope you all BURN IN SHAME FOR YOUR CACKLING.

You are DESPICABLE creatures, you who would cast the first stone based on the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. FIE ON YOU. MAY YOU ALL BE FORCED TO READ THAT HUNK OF CRAP WEEKLY FROM COVER TO COVER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES. (tremble at my caps lock !!!)

It is one thing to crap out a fake scandal like this, but another to be so STUPID as to have it be so easily rebutted by a SCIENTIFIC paternity test, which is certainly in the offing.

The last laugh will be on you, Edwards haters - may your catty commenting be shoved down your throats on Election Day. Scurry, you roaches, upon the dawning of a new era of Truth.

A SCIENTIFIC paternity test would indeed be the way to go; much better than those MAGICAL ones.


Indeed funny Jim. High five to funny Jim.


Jim and I both say that if you don't believe in science, give us your computers.

Speak for yourself, crackpot!

Treach it, brotha!


Jim, it's YOU that don't speak for YOURSELF.

You speak for the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Idiot!

May your eyes burn with acid anguish as you gaze upon John Edwards, President of the United States of America, during the next eight years.

- jef

Well said...

There are three pictures widely available of Rielle Hunter. The one on this blog makes her look cute. The other two, which are similar to each other, don't look like the one here. Those two look like a different and less attractive person.

Comments?

JE seems like a really nice guy. If he really did have an affaie with hunter, she seems determined to keep it under wraps for his sake.

But his opponents have other ideas.

how is his fother

Not only Drudge, but Bob Grant on WABC, just went on air with the word....

I don't beleive anything FOX news or the Enquirer reports. FOX has a direct "lie-line" to the White House...who has never told the public the truth about anything !

Nothing assures me that I don't know what I'm talking about more than an employee of the Edwards campaign telling me point blank "trust me: You don't." No supporting evidence needed!

Bring on the Times, CBS, all the cameras, unleash Olbermann...Oh crap he's a democrat. Ah just forget it.

Breaking news today..it's true...ha ha ha. Let's hear you (and his wife) stick up for him now!

When I read what Edwards08 wrote I was laughing when the story broke by the national enquirer. Now John Edwards finally admitted to it I just wanted to show what Edwards08 said.

"I work for the Edwards campaign.

So I am really getting a kick out of all of these rumors.

A lot of you are really good at making yourselves look like you know what you're talking about, but trust me: You don't.

I think you want to make yourselves sound smart, when in reality you have no idea what you're talking about.

This is how bad information gets passed around.

If you don't know about a topic, don't make yourself sound like you do...

...Because some people will believe everything they read."--Edwards08

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT THIS PERSON HAS TO SAY NOW THAT THE TRUTH HAS COME OUT.

I'm from NC and we know John Edwards best. We gave him a chance as a senator. After his first term, there was no way he could have been re-elected because we realized Jesse Helms was better afterall.

When Edwards08 was telling people, "If you don't know about a topic, don't make yourself sound like you do..." Instead of telling people that, maybe you should take your own advice. This man is scum--his wife has cancer and is dying, but that didn't stop him from cheating on her.

I have no respect for that man. I feel sorry for his wife and his children. I pray that God will comfort them.

Unlike the other news channels, Fox News is fair and balanced. I don't just take people's word for it, I watch all of them. MSNBC is the worst, they treated Hillary Clinton terrible. Keith Olberman is probably the worst at MSNBC, especially when it leftist rants...I get it Mr. Olberman, you hate Bush, Hillary Clinton, and every person that isn't to the hard left like you are.

Besides, the media seems to have a love fest with Obama, ignoring his past, record (or lack thereof), and every position he seems to take (he's not a flip-flopper, he wants it both ways).

When McCain got off of plane in New England while Obama was in Europe, there was only 1 reporter there to greet him and report on him, while all the other reporters are following Obama.

I watch MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, CNN, and Fox News. Fox is the only one that doesn't take sides; they air all opinions. The other networks just have liberals expressing liberal views, hence the LIBERAL MEDIA. Fox News has Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives. When people quote something or someone on Fox News they just take the Conservative viewpoint to support their arguments and ignore the rest.

I'm a Democrat...I'm not complaining...I like Fox News.

Edwards wasn't lying when he said he didn't sleep with her.. Do you really think they were sleeping?

And of course they kept it under cover(s)

Edwards 08 you stupid idiot, You sure made a fool out of yourself.
Here's some advice, Keep your mouth shut next time!

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